The suffixes -ic and -ical always place primary stress on the syllable immediately before them, which is why stress shifts across a word family: PHOtograph, phoTOGraphy, photoGRAPHic. The vowels reduce and expand to follow the stress. Learning this one rule fixes hundreds of words.
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